During the Cold War, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union faced many challenges politically. The leaders wanted sole power and became more corrupt. Stalin started to show sole power and had little respect for other Communist party members. His suspicions added increasingly to the regimes repression. In 1946 the government ordered all literary and scientific work to observe the state’s political needs. With the anti-intellectual campaign came political terror for the government and the people. There was a threat of more purges (an abrupt or violent way of getting a group of people out of an organization or place) in 1953, but soon later ended when Stalin died. In the 1970's, the ruling class of the Soviet Union became more corrupt. Party leaders, state leaders, and army leaders enjoyed a higher standard of living. Brezhnev was unwilling to influence the party leaders and state leaders to give up their higher standard of living regardless of the inefficiency and corruption of the system that they had created. The government started to become corrupt, the leaders got more than the people.
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Politically during the Cold War the Soviet Union went under many changes. The hydrogen bomb and the first space satellite in were made 1957, which enhanced the Soviet Union's reputation as a world power. During the war, in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe many changes occurred politically. After Stalin died, Khrushchev came to power and he started to undo things that Stalin had done. This process became the process of de-Stalinization. He began to eliminate the ruthless policies that Stalin had created. Khrushchev started to loosen controls on literacy and artistic works. Khrushchev started to undo Stalin's policies, this was called de-Stalinization .
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